Tablets' sales “crashing” warns Best Buy boss

[froggyboy604]

Tablet sales "are crashing" Best Buy's CEO has warned, describing a resurgence in laptops he ascribes to users stumbling across the limits of the "post-PC" revolution. The ominous news comes on the heels of Apple recording a drop in iPad sales in the most recent quarter, while tablet demand as a whole has dropped across the industry. According to the retail chief Hubert Joly, that's a problem the tablet makers still haven't addressed.

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I think people are just buying their tablet's directly from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft instead of buying them from Best Buy which sometimes have poor customer services, higher prices, and are located in bad locations where you need to drive or walk many minutes to hours to get to one.

There are also discount stores like Walmart, Target, Kmart, and online Asian stores which sell tablets for $50-150, so there is no need to pay the extra money to buy a tablet at Bestbuy which sell tablets for higher prices.

 

[hissae2]

I think people are just buying their tablet's directly from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft instead of buying them from Best Buy which sometimes have poor customer services, higher prices, and are located in bad locations where you need to drive or walk many minutes to hours to get to one.

There are also discount stores like Walmart, Target, Kmart, and online Asian stores which sell tablets for $50-150, so there is no need to pay the extra money to buy a tablet at Bestbuy which sell tablets for higher prices.

That wouldn't explain why sales are just starting to go down, these other options to best buy have always been available.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I said it once, I'll say it again. Everyone has one now. so the sales of everyone buying them can no longer be hoped for since they all have one and I doubt birth rate matches the population of going into buying a tablet or PC.

 

[froggyboy604]

I said it once, I'll say it again. Everyone has one now. so the sales of everyone buying them can no longer be hoped for since they all have one and I doubt birth rate matches the population of going into buying a tablet or PC.

Indeed, the birth rate is slowing down, so there is not a lot of new buyers of PC, tablet, and other electronics. It is also easier these days to make an extra user account on a PC, laptop, and Tablet, so many people can share one tablet or PC to save money.

Although, I read the sales of super cheap Google Android phones and tablets are rising in emerging countries like India, Africa, and China because most people are poor, and can only afford $40 Smartphones, and $99 tablets.

 

[dfarmer2001]

Bestbuy is one of the most expensive places to buy technology. I don't know if it's because they are wanting to triple their money or what, but very expensive. 

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree Bestbuy is pretty expensive. I remember seeing 20-30 dollar USB cables which were made by their store brands like Insignia, and Dynex while you can get a similar Cable from monoprice or Amazon for a few dollars.

I think Bestbuy is slowly becoming less popular like Radioshack, Sony Store, and Circuit City where not as many people shop anymore because of the high prices.